Beschreibung:

A 19th-Century lacquered-brass and black enamelled compound monocular microscope, signed on the body-tube VOIGTLAENDER BRAUNSCHWEIG N o 50480 , with rack and pinion, draw-tube and micrometer focusing, double nosepiece, U-shaped stage, substage condensor and diaphragm with rack and pinion vertical adjustment, plano-concave substage mirror and a Y-shaped foot, with one eyepiece and two Beck objectives, in a mahogany carrying case with seven drawers with bone pulls, containing mostly unused glass slides and some condenser accessories, the inside of the door with a fine trade label for JOHN B. DANCER Optical mathematical & Philosophical INSTRUMENT MANUFACTURER 43, Cross Street, King Street, MANCHESTER showing a pair of library globes and various instruments, also showing BAROMETERS THERMOMETERS and informing SPECTACLES CAREFULLY ADAPTED TO THE DEFECTS OF VISION and Apparatus Manufactured from Drawings and Instruments carefully repaired , the case with brass handle -- 16in. (40.7cm.) high See Colour Illustration (Detail)